JOURNALISM IN THE POST-TRUTH ERA
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https://doi.org/10.18485/Keywords:
post-true, post-science, journalism, social networks, fake newsAbstract
This paper seeks to contextualize the position of the journalist and the manner of professional action in a post-true society – in a situation where profession does not rely on its elementary norms and beliefs, when facts are not the reporter’s tools but when informing is based on delusions. At the same time, the analysis seeks to answer the question of why the deceptions have become so present in both the virtual space and in the mainstream media, in the era of “democratization in informing”, based on widespread participation in social networks. Post-truth is theoretically examined in the relations between the media and science, politics and social networking, and the paper seeks to show that post-true information does not only mean fake news, but a system of semi-truthful claims that are suitable for placement and further transmission in each of these areas. The subject of the analysis are the events that have marked the year of 2016, the presidential elections in the United States and the Brexit, including the cases that preceded them, and their comparison with domestic practice.
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